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I agree with you in some ways. Supertalls could be more vulnerable in case of war, fires, or natural disasters. Then there's the overloading of transportation infrastructure from the super density of clusters of supertalls. Definitely some significant minuses.

I'm a big fan of re-establishing wetland areas in these types of developments that are on land which was originally wetlands many decades ago. The new wetland areas can be scattered around a development, and have elevated boardwalks providing multi-use paths across and along them, creating...

The Boston metro area is very traditional, to say the least, made up of small towns that act like walled fortresses opposed to anything much different than what is already there. One of the few exceptions is Everett, and even there some NIMBY blowback might happen against high rises, depending...

I was thinking one reason for the large park would be flood mitigation, although that could be addressed other ways, such as a canal and some wetlands reestablished in smaller area(s). But still, a park of that large of a size will serve that entire part of town, not jut the development...

It could be worse. At least they propose a street grid on much of the site, and the streets don't look overly wide. But why such a large park at the south end of Forth Point Channel? A parkway along the shoreline, plus two or three pocket parks scattered around the interior of the...

LOL. That was supposed to happen 60 years ago.

In the current political climate, this project should not be marketed to the Feds as a road diet. It should be marketed as removing a structure (the highway overpass) that is functionally obsolete and has met the end of its useful life. After all, the lanes really are not being diminished by...

I like it! An urban boulevard for the 21st century. I just hope the previously awarded Federal funding is still available.

I'm hoping the new render will show the road diets on the approaching streets.

A good, thorough analysis, and you have me convinced!

Yep, it's the old Sears and Roebucks building, which I think the facade of should be preserved with any new building put up there. We lived not far away, and my mom would take me there when I was a little kid, and I called it "Stairs and Robots" because of all the people going up and down the...

C'mon man.

I remember when the Porter Square shopping center (with its parking lot) was built in the 1950s. I grew up not far from it, and it was fitting for that post-war suburbanization car-centric era. But that was 70 years ago, and its shelf life has expired. Time to get rid of the shopping center...

Yes, if the two roads on the west and three roads on the east all converging into this spot were put on road diets, eliminating some lanes on those, then this might work. However, as it's depicted, it seems tight with all the 4-lane highways converging into one 4-lane siphon. Traffic modeling...

Having a gigantic parking lot (on the left) next to a Red Line stop in an urban neighborhood is insanity. That should be mid-rise housing

Ouch! That will be one tight and congested bottle neck. I mean, I like the sentiment of increasing park land and decreasing pavement, but this one might be a bridge too far (no pun intended).

Just a crazy thought, which probably should be in the Crazy Highway Pitches thread: Why not one new bridge halfway between the two bridges (and of course demolishing the two existing bridges)? This would require some extensive expressway construction along both sides of the canal to connect...

Great looking truss bridge! It looks like a freight rail line ran down the center part of the bridge (rail tracks faintly visible in the 1st photo in the street on the east side of the bridge), that possibly connected to the Union Freight Railroad?

Looks like a good one for the "Ode to Brutalism" thread. ;)

Totally agree. A bus and carpool-only road on a viaduct going from the Alewife Red Line station to Route 2, stacked on top of the existing one-way road from Rte 2 to Alewife, would at least keep the new road out of the wetland and green space, although people would probably object to a short...